Kings Hill by rail
West Malling for Kings Hill station is on the main line to London Victoria and Blackfriars.
BY RAIL |
MINUTES |
| West Malling to Victoria | 50 |
| West Malling to Blackfriars | 60 |
| West Malling to Ashford Int | 30 |
| Ashford Int to Paris | 100 |
| Ashford Int to Brussels | 80 |
| Ebbsfleet Int to Paris | 125 |
| Ebsfleet Int to Brussels | 101 |
| Source: National Rail | |
Kings Hill Rail Services Update December 2009
Kings Hill benefits from an excellent choice of rail services to London and other locations.
West Malling for Kings Hill station is just a few minutes away by car or the shuttle bus (123:The Ride), which meets every train.
Services to Victoria are half hourly and take approximately 50 minutes. There are two early morning services to Blackfriars, at 0622 and 0705, which take an hour.
Kent’s high-speed rail services commenced on 14 December 2009. Ebbsfleet International station can be reached by car from Kings Hill in less than 30 minutes. Trains from Ebbsfleet International run half hourly and reach St Pancras International in just 17 minutes. Excellent onward connections are then available across the platform or from adjacent Kings Cross station, for example:
- Nottingham and Oxford can be reached in just over 2hours
- Birmingham in 2 hours 34 minutes
- Sheffield and Leeds in 2 hours 42 minutes
Trains from Ebbsfleet International stop at Stratford International giving excellent connections to Docklands Light Railway into Canary Wharf in about 27 minutes.
Other nearby stations serving Kings Hill include:
- Paddock Wood, approximately 20 minutes away by car, offering 3 trains an hour to Charing Cross, taking 50 minutes
- Tonbridge, 20 minutes away by car, offers services to Charing Cross every few minutes, taking 42 minutes
- Sevenoaks, 25 minutes away by car, offers services to Charing Cross every few minutes, taking 33 minutes
Most of these services also call at London Bridge.
Useful links:
- South Eastern Railway www.southeasternrailway.co.uk
- National Rail www.nationalrail.co.uk
- Railtrack timetables www.networkrail.co.uk
- London Underground www.tfl.gov.uk
- Ebbsfleet International www.ebbsfleetinternational.co.uk/
- St Pancras International www.stpancras.com/
